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Saturday, March 28, 2009

MORE RECORD STORE DAY NEWS

The official website of Record Store Day has a list of exclusives that will be available, which includes a Ben Harper 10" (with an unreleased track, "Spanish Red Wine"), a Bob Dylan 7" (two tracks recorded when he played Bonnaroo, "Down Along The Cove" which was on a Bonnaroo album, and "Dreaming Of You" from Bootleg Series Vol. 8), a Bruce Springsteen 7" with "What Love Can Do" from Working on a Dream and "A Night With The Jersey Devil," 7" singles from Jane's Addiction and Heaven & Hell, The Stooges, The MC5, Slayer, The Smiths and Sublime, and a split 7" by Elvis Costello and JennyLewis.

It's interesting that Record Store Day, which is April 18, comes just weeks after the biggest record store in the world (I think), the Virgin Megastore in Times Square, is closing (I think it actually closes Monday). They've been having a clearance sale, so of course I went to check it out. Even with 40% off of CDs, it was surprisingly untempting: that's because they charge 50% too much for CDs. While walking through the store, I had the chorus to Radiohead's "Just" in my mind ("You did it to yourself..."). By the way, Radiohead has an exclusive release for Record Store Day as well. Support independent record stores: if you don't live near one, you can still order something from their websites, I often order from Newbury Comics.

About Me

Who's on tour? What are they playing? Who's still in the band these days? What's on that box set? Don't I have all of that stuff already? That's the stuff NO EXPIRATION sorts out for you. So you don't end up being the loudmouth at the Neil Young show who yells out "Heart Of Gold" when he's only doing garage rock with Crazy Horse. Or you're not the person complaining at George Clinton's shows because Bootsy isn't there (but odds are, he won't be there). You get the idea - I'll let you know what's up, and you won't have to weed through stories about lame celebs or (many) bands you haven't heard of.